Revealed: how much Sarah Beeny paid for Rise Hall

Benny and her husband bought the property in 2001 but apparently there is no online record of it.

However, the Big Property List shelled out £4 to get a copy of the registration documents and can reveal that Beeny’s husband, Graham Swift paid £441,101 for the property on 16th February 2001.

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Which is not a bad price for a Georgian mansion with 97 rooms.

Given Beeny’s whole shtick on Property Ladder – rolling her eyes and telling some hapless developer that they are spending far too much and getting too emotionally involved – the real question, of course, is whether she kept to her own principles.

According to an interview with C4, she seems to have done remarkably well on the budgeting front:

We didn’t have the money – a project like this, you would expect to cost at least 10 or 20 times the amount, if you just got a building company to do it.

So our mission was ‘Can you turn this into a proper stately home without it costing the National Trust figure?’ The National Trust would have spent probably £20 million on it. We spent about half a million.